17 hours ago
- The author loves Half-Life 1 and 2, but struggles to run older PC games on modern Macs due to dropped 32-bit support and transition to ARM architecture.
- Crossover runs HL1 well but HL2 suffers from severe FPS drops during action scenes, even with DirectX fixes.
- Parallels Desktop runs HL2 smoothly with stable FPS, though it's expensive and subscription-based, simulating both VM and x86 on ARM.
- The author built a native Mac version of HL2 using leaked Source engine code, requiring a specific pre-20th Anniversary build from Steam.
- The native build works after file manipulations and renaming, but the author has only tested 45 minutes and suspects potential issues.